hey i’m running on solar and battery so no waste of electricity here ;)
but yeah that was it, i just noticed how here and on mastodon i read ‘ai is a scam’ and then turn my head and read ‘ai will take all our jobs’, makes for a nice whiplash effect
also it’s 4am here i’m going to sleep, appreciate the chat
Stock market chaos as China reveals secret snake oil refinery, threatening US snake oil monopoly.
https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/113901910776808096
Snake oil yesterday, magic beans today.
AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67977967
Going to hit 40% of jobs in 5 years the next
Is it magic beans and snake oil, eg. a scam or is it a legit threat, you can’t have both
we’re not in the slower than walking era, we’re in the ford model t era, i’m reading someone call the ford model t magic beans (eg. a scam) while millions of people are driving one every day and simultaneously worried it’s going to ruin transportation all over the north america
“It took years of hard work for us to steal beans from farmers, apply our unique brand of magic, and seek investment from our nation’s finest rubes and oafs,” a Beanco spokesman said. “Now DeepBean wants to steal our magic beans, rebrand the magic, and get money from their own buffoons and clods? It’s just not right.”
again, these are contradictory statements, it cannot be both a scam that has no value (eg. magic beans) and going to take all our jobs
You can absolutely leave and fund a “good” company, good luck getting anywhere.
If the product has value then people will buy it*
Humans have always created jobs, we love em, can’t get enough of em, in a capitalist system if people want to buy human made goods and services and those systems are profitable then there will be jobs for those people
This isn’t a communist dictatorship where you will be forced to buy government sponsored AI produce and no other choice is given to you
*I assume the products would have little logos on them like “non-gmo, organic, human made and farmed fruits!” etc
But cars have always had value, we’re talking under an article that calls AI “magic beans”
How could magic beans which produce garbage enslave humanity under capitalism? Would you argue that cars which replaced horses as the primary mode of transport in a few years be called this?
You can argue that AI does some things badly, it’s still very very early on and the progress people are making is insane, like nothing I’ve seen before, but you can’t argue it is worthless and a giant threat to us at the same time, this is contradictory
That can’t be possible, if they fire all their workers and produce AI slop then we will simply start a new company with human workers that doesn’t.
This isn’t communism we can simply start a new business at any time for any reason, with or without AI
companies are getting ahead of themselves about the opportunity to fire human employees
But then if they produce garbage with AI people will buy the non-garbage product
Either it produces something of value or it doesn’t, if it’s producing garbage, lowering output, etc then it’s not a threat to our jobs because most people don’t like garbage, if it’s producing genuine value then it will be.
i have noticed that there are two competing narratives in the leftwingosphere:
A) ai is 100% slop garbage and a giant waste of electricity, pumping out garbage images with multiple hands and the text is nothing but hallucinations that can’t even count the number of r’s in “strawberry”
and at the same time
B) AI is going to take all our jobs and we will all be homeless and poor while tech billionaire CEOs turn us into slaves
few niche uses? it has heaps of uses that aren’t niche at all
https://aussie.zone/post/16417192/14017352
perplexity.ai is a better search engine than any current ones and that’s about as mainstream a use as you can get
Unrelated to the convo but for those who’d like a visual on how LLM’s work: https://bbycroft.net/llm
That’s a lot of processing just to count letters
feel free to ask Google/Bing/Your favourite search engine to do the same :P
they are building a plant in Arizona, but i doubt it’ll ever be as good as Taiwan can do, not just because Taiwan has the skills but if Taiwan doesn’t have this then what’s the point of protecting it? It’s sort of a way to say, if you want to to continue to access the best chips in the world you should protect us from China
Think might be this:
What is distillation?
Distillation is a means of extracting understanding from another model; you can send inputs to the teacher model and record the outputs, and use that to train the student model. This is how you get models like GPT-4 Turbo from GPT-4. Distillation is easier for a company to do on its own models, because they have full access, but you can still do distillation in a somewhat more unwieldy way via API, or even, if you get creative, via chat clients.
Distillation obviously violates the terms of service of various models, but the only way to stop it is to actually cut off access, via IP banning, rate limiting, etc. It’s assumed to be widespread in terms of model training, and is why there are an ever-increasing number of models converging on GPT-4o quality. This doesn’t mean that we know for a fact that DeepSeek distilled 4o or Claude, but frankly, it would be odd if they didn’t.
Using mistral to calculate this but looks close enough
1921 + 1673 + 242 + 85 + 84 + 84 + 83 + 82 + 81 + 80 + 79 + 77 + 77 + 75 + 74 + 73 + 72 + 71 + 70 + 69 + 68 + 68 + 67 + 66 + 65 + 64 + 63 + 62 + 61 + 60 + 59 + 58 + 57 + 56 + 55 + 54 + 53 + 52 + 52 + 51 + 50 + 48 + 48 + 47 + 46 + 45 + 44 + 43 + 41 + 21 + 18 = 7264ms
So, the total sum of all the time values is 7264 milliseconds, or 7.264 seconds
Removing the snapd services: 7264ms - 3836ms = 3428ms
Not really noticed it tbh:
1.951s snapd.seeded.service
1.673s snapd.service
Seems to be a lot longer than the mounts themselves but even then pretty minimal impact:
$ systemd-analyze blame | grep snap | grep mount
86ms snap-bare-5.mount
85ms snap-blanket-49.mount
84ms snap-btop-813.mount
83ms snap-btop-814.mount
82ms snap-chromium-3010.mount
82ms snap-chromium-3025.mount
80ms snap-core18-2829.mount
79ms snap-core18-2846.mount
78ms snap-core20-2379.mount
77ms snap-core20-2434.mount
76ms snap-core22-1663.mount
76ms snap-core22-1722.mount
75ms snap-core24-609.mount
74ms snap-core24-716.mount
73ms snap-cups-1067.mount
72ms snap-firefox-5600.mount
71ms snap-firefox-5647.mount
70ms snap-firmware\x2dupdater-127.mount
69ms snap-firmware\x2dupdater-147.mount
68ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-198.mount
67ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d38\x2d2004-140.mount
66ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d38\x2d2004-143.mount
65ms snap-gnome\x2d42\x2d2204-172.mount
64ms snap-gnome\x2d42\x2d2204-176.mount
63ms snap-gnome\x2d46\x2d2404-66.mount
62ms snap-gnome\x2d46\x2d2404-77.mount
61ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1534.mount
60ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1535.mount
59ms snap-libreoffice-330.mount
58ms snap-libreoffice-334.mount
57ms snap-mesa\x2d2404-143.mount
56ms snap-mesa\x2d2404-44.mount
55ms snap-nvtop-171.mount
54ms snap-pinta-33.mount
53ms snap-pinta-37.mount
52ms snap-snap\x2dstore-1244.mount
51ms snap-snap\x2dstore-1248.mount
50ms snap-snapd-23258.mount
49ms snap-snapd-23545.mount
48ms snap-snapd\x2ddesktop\x2dintegration-247.mount
47ms snap-snapd\x2ddesktop\x2dintegration-253.mount
46ms snap-surfshark-51.mount
44ms snap-telegram\x2ddesktop-6489.mount
43ms snap-transmission-100.mount
42ms snap-youtube\x2ddl-4630.mount
41ms snap-youtube\x2ddl-4806.mount
40ms var-snap-firefox-common-host\x2dhunspell.mount
24ms snap-telegram\x2ddesktop-6495.mount
Why not? That was 10 years ago and they’re trying to be profitable in a space that is extremely difficult to make profit.
each snap installed slows down your boot time
How so? How much impact are we talking? First I’ve heard of this
10+ year Ubuntu user here, how have I been screwed again?
Ukraine is no less European than Norway or the UK
I think in the context of Europe sure, in the context of integration into the wider Western European ecosystem no.
If Russia had invaded Norway or the UK NATO would have been engaged from minute 1 and Russians would have been exterminated like cockroaches on day 1
Poles and the Baltics have been shouting “you’re idiots” from the top of their lungs, we ignored them, considered their shouting to be the result of PTSD. Which yes I mean it is but also they were right.
Yep there were plenty of warning signs, and this is probably one of the few times (as much as it fucking kills me to say it) that Trump has been spot on:
Word for Word: President Trump Strongly Criticized Germany at Start of NATO Summit (C-SPAN) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqZf72pAhk
If a fucking moron like Trump can spot a problem (and end up being right about it) then I think the EU is making some serious mistakes.
EU may consider replacing Russian LNG imports with those from US, von der Leyen says November 9, 2024
This is a joke
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